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Nov

07

Bottled Water: The Government’s Top Priority? Shouldn’t Be.

Sometimes, government actions are misinformed and misplaced, notesDonald A. Mounce, the senior editor of Water Conditioning &Purification Magazine. (Not quite as well known as Newsweek, butstill…)

Yet Mounce knows firsthand about wrong government actions, as aformer elected - and currently appointed - local official. “In somecases, the egregious nature of government priorities is very clear andbecomes quite unbearable,” he writes.

And Mounce continues:

This is where we find ourselves on the argument ofbanning bottled water. It is unconscionable that any level ofgovernment or any bureaucratic unit would in any way find this a goodidea.

It is simply ridiculous.

Somehow the bottled water industry is targeted as the reason forrising oil prices, improper waste management, the lack of completeplastic recycling, global warming and probably, for some, the lack ofworld peace…this is another case of unecessary government socialengineering for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way.

And as Mounce puts succinctly, in regard to tap, filtered, or bottled waters:

“Any way to get potable water in the hands of anyonewho needs it is an excellent method; there is no best, better, or worseway. It is all good and it all has value to our health and to ourglobal societies, whether for convenience of individuals or necessaryuse in times of global disaster.”